Altova’s Powerful Data Transformation Platform Gets a Major Update

New features enhance data integration projects and boost performance
by up to 10 times

March 27, 2014 09:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altova® (http://www.altova.com),
today announced the availability of Version 2014 Release 2 (v2014r2)
with increases in performance and speed to its robust data integration
platform, which consists of MapForce®, MapForce Server, and FlowForce®
Server.

FlowForce Server is powerful new server software for automating
multi-step, data mapping, integration, and reporting tasks. FlowForce
Server and MapForce Server provide for high-speed automation of data
transformations between any combination of XML, database, flat file,
EDI, Excel, XBRL, and/or Web services data. MapForce Server data
transformations are based on data mappings designed in MapForce,
Altova’s award winning graphical data mapping and integration tool.
Together these products form a robust, scalable, customizable data
integration platform that can be easily configured for mission-critical
integration tasks for a variety of enterprises.

“The new features in this version make it even easier for developers to
define data mappings in MapForce, and increase performance on the
servers, making automated processing even faster and more efficient,
“said Alexander Falk, CEO of Altova. “This exceptional data integration
platform provides the unique combination of cross-platform support,
affordable scalability, and hyper-performance that just gets better with
each release.”

New features in MapForce Server:

Bulk Insert for databases: Bulk Insert is an operation
available for certain databases that allows a large volume of data to
be inserted into a database table in a single SQL statement, as
opposed to the typical method of using individual Insert statements
for each row. Since processing overhead by the database engine is
greatly reduced, performance is much faster. Testing with some
examples* has shown Bulk Insert can be more than 10 times faster than
individual Insert statements.

New features in FlowForce Server:

Job caching enhancements: FlowForce Server job caching has been
enhanced with several new features. Job caching allows administrators
to schedule execution of time consuming jobs, store the results, and
deliver output instantaneously to a Web browser window, upon an HTTP
request by an end user. Administrators can schedule automatic cache
updates or removed cached data entirely, to prevent delivery of stale
or expired results.

New features in MapForce:

New functions for processing and generating sequences: A series
of new functions have been added to significantly extend functionality
for working with sequences. The complete list of sequence functions
can be found here.

Timeout Settings for Web service calls and database execution:
In MapForce 2014 users can now define timeouts for Web service calls
and database sources. Each component has its own timeout setting to
allow for maximum flexibility, defined in the component Properties
dialog. For instance, an input to a mapping might be a SQL query
requiring a long and complex calculation by the database engine before
the result is delivered for further processing. The user can now
specify a very long timeout.

Support for CDATA generation in XML files: This
customer-requested feature allows target XML element notes to be
output as CDATA instead of XML-escaped characters. The benefits of
CDATA go beyond the improvements in human readability; rendering CDATA
eliminates the chance of incorrectly processing XML-escaped data
before deployment as HTML.

Click for more information on all the new functionality in v2014r2 of
Altova’s data integration platform, as well as the complete line of
Altova desktop
developer tools and server
software. All Altova products are available for a free,
fully-functional 30-day
trial.

*Performance results based on Altova internal tests conducted on a
typical selection of files comparing Version 2014r2 to the prior version
of the server software. Your results may vary.

About AltovaAltova® is a software company specializing in
tools to assist developers with data management, software and
application development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy®
and other award-winning XML, SQL and UML tools, Altova is a key player
in the software tools industry and the leader in XML solution
development tools. Altova focuses on its customers’ needs by offering a
product line that fulfills a broad spectrum of requirements for software
development teams. With over 4.6 million users worldwide, including 91%
of Fortune 500 organizations, Altova is proud to serve clients from
one-person shops to the world’s largest organizations. Altova is
committed to delivering standards-based, platform-independent solutions
that are powerful, affordable and easy-to-use. Founded in 1992, Altova
is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit
Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com.

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